Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Cassius Clay and I were teenagers in Louisville, Ky., we used to lounge around Columbia gym and muse about the future...
Well, I do know, of course, and so does everybody else. Clay (or Muhammed Ali, if you wish) is on the threshhold of becoming the greatest heavyweight in the history of the ring. Floyd Patterson, Clay's opponent in Las Vegas tonight, will open the door just another crack. That's all; nothing more, nothing less...
...absolutely certain that Clay will win this one. As Cassius says, "I got superior height, weight, balance, reach, speed, strength, and youth." In fact, the champion is so embarrassed about Patterson's total incompetence that, for once, he doesn't want to talk about...
...Clay's other opponents have been subjected to frothing mouthfuls of abuse. Patterson got the same treatment at first: "He couldn't out-punch my ninety-year-old grandmother," Clay used to say about the former champion. "He is the only fighter I know with a one-hundred carat crystal...
Saturday, November 20 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A preview of the Nov. 22 Clay-Patterson World Heavyweight Championship fight, including film clips of their last fights and interviews with the principals...